Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne is a city in the northeastern part of , a state of the . It is 30 minutes from the western Ohio border and 70 minutes from the southern border of Michigan.
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  • Type: City with 249,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States
  • Also known as: Fort Miami”, “Fort Wayne, IN”, “Fort Wayne, Indiana”, “Frenchtown”, “Kekionga”, “Kiskakon”, “Miami Town”, “Omee Town”, “Post Miami”, and “Twightwee Village
  • Postal codes: 46801-46809, 46814-46816, 46818, 46819, 46825, 46835, 46845, 46850-46869, 46885, and 46895-46899

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Wayne and Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
was a series of three successive military log stockades existing between 1794 and 1819 on the confluence between the and St. Joseph Rivers in northeastern , in what is now the city of .

Park
The Foellinger–Freimann Botanical Conservatory is an enclosed conservatory in downtown Fort Wayne, , . Opened in 1983, the conservatory contains a 25,000-square-foot.

Museum
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
The in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana operates as a museum known as The History Center, and has served as headquarters for the Allen County–Fort Wayne Historical Society since 1980.

Fort Wayne

Latitude
41.08° or 41° 4′ 48″ north
Longitude
-85.1386° or 85° 8′ 19″ west
Population
249,000
Elevation
810 feet (247 metres)
Named after
Anthony Wayne
IATA airport code
FWA
United Nations Location Code
US WYJ
Open location code
86HP3VH6+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153744573
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4920423
Wiki­data ID
Q49268
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zulu—“Fort Wayne” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Albanian: Fort Wayne
  • Amharic: ፎርት ዌይን
  • Arabic: فورت واين
  • Aragonese: Fort Wayne
  • Armenian: Ֆորտ Ուեյն
  • Asturian: Fort Wayne
  • Azerbaijani: Fort Veyn
  • Basque: Fort Wayne
  • Basque: Forte Wayne
  • Belarusian: Форт-Уэйн
  • Belarusian: Форт-Ўэйн
  • Bengali: ফোর্ট ওয়েন, ইন্ডিয়ানা
  • Bengali: ফোর্ট ওয়েন
  • Breton: Fort Wayne
  • Bulgarian: Форт Уейн
  • Burmese: ဖို့တ် ဝိန်
  • Burmese: ဝိန်း Fort
  • Catalan: Fort Wayne
  • Catalan: Fortificar Wayne
  • Cebuano: Fort Wayne
  • Central Kurdish: فۆرت وەین
  • Chechen: Форт-Вейн
  • Cherokee: ᏬᎵᏖ ᏪᏱᏁ
  • Chinese: Fort Wayne
  • Chinese: 韋恩堡/韦恩堡
  • Chinese: 韋恩堡
  • Chinese: 韦恩堡
  • Cornish: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Cornish: Fort Wayne
  • Corsican: Fort Wayne
  • Croatian: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Croatian: Fort Wayne
  • Czech: Fort Wayne
  • Dagbani: Fort Wayne
  • Danish: Fort Wayne
  • Dutch: Fort Wayne
  • Egyptian Arabic: فورت واين
  • Esperanto: Fort Wayne
  • Estonian: Fort Wayne
  • Finnish: Fort Wayne
  • French: Fort Wayne
  • Galician: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Galician: Fort Wayne
  • Georgian: ფორტ ვეინი
  • German: Fort Wayne
  • Gilaki: فؤرت وین (اينديانا)
  • Gilaki: فؤرت وین
  • Greek: Φορτ Γουέιν, Ιντιάνα
  • Greek: Φορτ Γουέιν
  • Gujarati: ફોર્ટ વેય્ન
  • Haitian: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Haitian: Fort Wayne
  • Hebrew: פורט ויין
  • Hindi: फोर्ट वेन, इंडियाना
  • Hindi: फोर्ट वेन
  • Hungarian: Fort Wayne
  • Icelandic: Fort Wayne
  • Ido: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Ido: Fort Wayne
  • Indonesian: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Indonesian: Fort Wayne
  • Interlingua: Fort Wayne
  • Irish: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Irish: Fort Wayne
  • Italian: Fort Wayne
  • Japanese: Fōtou~ein
  • Japanese: フォート・ウェイン (インディアナ州)
  • Japanese: フォート・ウェイン
  • Japanese: フォートウェイン
  • Kannada: ಫೋರ್ಟ್ ವೇಯ್ನ್
  • Korean: poteu wein
  • Korean: 포트웨인
  • Kurdish: Fort Wayne
  • Ladin: Fort Wayne
  • Latin: Arx Vainensis
  • Latvian: Fortveina
  • Lithuanian: Fort Veinas
  • Luxembourgish: Fort Wayne
  • Malagasy: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Malagasy: Fort Wayne
  • Malay: Fort Wayne
  • Marathi: फोर्ट वेन
  • Mazanderani: فورت‌وین
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: فورت وين
  • Min Nan Chinese: Fort Wayne
  • Mongolian: Форт Уэйн
  • Moroccan Arabic: فورْت وين
  • Navajo: Dahbatah Ahidiilíní
  • North Levantine Arabic: فورت وين
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Fort Wayne
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Fort Wayne
  • Norwegian: Fort Wayne
  • Occitan (post 1500): Fort Wayne
  • Occitan (post 1500): Fòrt Wayne
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Wyrhtwægnwīc
  • Ossetian: Форт-Уэйн
  • Persian: فورت‌وین، ایندیانا
  • Persian: فورت‌وین
  • Polish: Fort Wayne
  • Portuguese: Fort Wayne
  • Romanian: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Romanian: Fort Wayne
  • Romansh: Fort Wayne
  • Russian: Форт-Уэйн
  • Scots: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Scots: Fort Wayne
  • Serbian: Fort Vaine
  • Serbian: Форт Вејн
  • Serbo-Croatian: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Serbo-Croatian: Fort Wayne
  • Silesian: Fort Wayne
  • Sinhala: ෆෝර්ට් වේන්
  • Slovak: Fort Wayne
  • Slovenian: Fort Wayne
  • South Azerbaijani: فورت‌وین، ایندیانا
  • Spanish: Fort Wayne (Indiana)
  • Spanish: Fort Wayne
  • Spanish: Fuerte Wayne
  • Swahili: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Swahili: Fort Wayne
  • Swedish: Fort Wayne
  • Tagalog: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Tagalog: Fort Wayne
  • Talysh: Fort Veyn
  • Tamil: போர்ட் வாய்நெ
  • Tatar: Форт-Вейн
  • Telugu: ఫోర్ట్ వేన్
  • Thai: ฟอร์ตเวน
  • Thai: ฟอร์ตเวย์น
  • Tigre: ፎርት ዌን
  • Tigrinya: ፎርት ዌይን
  • Turkish: Fort Wayne
  • Ukrainian: Форт-Вейн
  • Urdu: فورٹ وین، انڈیانا
  • Urdu: فورٹ وین
  • Uzbek: Fort Wayne
  • Venetian: Fort Wayne
  • Vietnamese: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Vietnamese: Fort Wayne
  • Volapük: Fort Wayne
  • Waray (Philippines): Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Waray (Philippines): Fort Wayne
  • Welsh: Fort Wayne, Indiana
  • Welsh: Fort Wayne
  • Western Frisian: Fort Wayne
  • Wu Chinese: 韦恩堡
  • Yue Chinese: 韋恩堡
  • Zulu: IFort Wayne
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